SkinXFormer's Skin Mod: AION - Indigo Phoenix Breastplate Mod

After spending many days wandering through familiar and unfamiliar streets in my home city, I have finally got back to continuing this blog. From the fact that not a single comment was dropped, during this duration, may be evident that no one has even noticed my absence from their busy schedules. >.<

Anyway, to continue from where I left off before, I got to work on a plate armor today and as the title suggests, it is the Indigo Phoenix Breastplate.

Just to fill in on a little details here, this particular set of armor is an upgrade from the Breastplate of Labyrinth which drops in Archive of Eternity (AoE), one of the new dungeons offered in AION 5.0. It also shares the same design as "Library of Eternity Breastplate", "Sacred Breastplate of Eternity" and a few others.

As I do not have the actual version of this armor, I needed to re-skin it to another armor. Unfortunately, the re-skinning caused the original armor to loose some properties such as glowing effect... :'( So I hope you guys wouldn't mind looking at an "Effect-less" armor. >.<"

Without further delay, let us take a look at this new armor, which is beautiful but definitely not an eye-candy. :p

All views - Original armor

So as you guys can see from the above image, this armor consists of a full plate bra armor and a full length pants armor, which are both contained in the chest armor (2-in-1 type chest armor).

This chest armor can be used to explain a feature that I loathe about when modifying plate armor, that is what I called "bulky parts that leave holes when removed". For this chest armor, my headache comes from the bra itself, because we will be looking right through the body to the other side, if it is removed. And if I try to place skin over it, it would look like skin floating inches from the body, after I removed any irregular surfaces (breasts' surface have to be smooth, you know...). >:(

Fortunately for us, the bra is not really that "bulky" and some extend of mod can still be applied. If it had been a huge lion head crest in place of the bra, we can kiss those breasts goodbye. Err... That sounded wrong... But you guys know what I mean. XD

I am sure you guys can understand the frustration when you remove the lion head crest and see a huge hole; and you can't just paint the normal body color over the lion head surface because all you will get is a lion head coming out of the torso, staring at you, in place of the beautiful smooth contour surface. :(

So what did I do for the bra? Let's take a look below.

Front view - Modified

The first thing that you will probably notice are those legs again. Yeah.... I modified the long pants to a panties-style armor... again... Even after some soul searching, I still have not change this habit. ~.~

It may not be very clear in this image due to her skin color and armor color, but I have modified the full plate bra into a frame style for her front torso. If you have looked carefully at the original bra, you would have notice that it has a wing-like design on each side, which I like a lot and decided to keep them. And if we know wings, there will be gaps in between the feathers; and that is the area which I had recolored to skin color, such that the bra now looks like a frame instead of a full plate cover.

And this is what the rear looks like now.

Rear view

The modified panties has less material on her butt cheek, as compared to the Malefic Hauberk or Malefic Jerkin, as I have used the design concept from the "Fallen Archon Greave".

So, that's all for this simple mod. Hope you guys like it.

Side note:

For the past one month or so, I have went on a search for a light or path that can lead me into my future; But sadly, it was quite a futile attempt. D:

What I got instead, are these: